Batters, prepared, made from purchased flour · Arkansas

American Breading and Spice

Van Buren, AR · ~20 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Breading and Spice runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Batters, prepared, made from purchased flour workplace, earning a grade A.

American Breading and Spice: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Batters, prepared, made from purchased flour BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Breading and Spice safety composite

American Breading and Spice scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2018→2024

American Breading and Spice injury rate improved

American Breading and Spice's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311824 · Van Buren, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Blendco Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blendco Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Breading and Spice in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows American Breading and Spice averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Batters, prepared, made from purchased flour BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

American Breading and Spice TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where American Breading and Spice falls in its industry

170 Batters, prepared, made from p establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Batters, prepared, made from p employers in Arkansas.

American Breading and Spice (20 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate American Breading and Spice
American Breading and Spice (20 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9

American Breading and Spice has fewer employees than the Batters, prepared, made from purchased f median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311824 · AR · Van Buren

170 Batters, prepared, made from purchased flour employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, AR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Blendco Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newly Weds Foods Headquarters 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing - Bakery 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ST Specialty Foods 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE JBS LIVE PORK SANDY RIVER FARM 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waldron Growout 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nashville Growout 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Entergy Batesville 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBR 751 FTE
NAT-TCR Kls General Mills Cov 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterman, IL-R&D 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Juana Diaz, PR 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ball Beverage Pkg 176 Bowling Green 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cotton O'Neil Urish 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stanton, MN 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indian River Landfill 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pilgrims Moorefield Protein Conversion 20 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.